Dodds genuinely said that Auston Trusty raked his studs across Butland’s face! He repeated that claim. Sheepish Richard Gordon, on presenting duties refused to correct Dodds.
Taking players on loan from Manchester City was a feature of Celtic a decade ago when sections of the stadium would be closed, getting thrown a few projects to bolster a team that lacked purpose with little aspirations or ambitions to be competing in the Champions League.
The influencers had been briefed, Rodgers signings were risky and represented bad value, he should have shown faith in the job-lot of seven projects presented by Mark Lawwell a year earlier.
The could easily have been three changes made to the Celtic team at half-time, very few fans expected to see Scales and Reo Hatate come out for the second half but amazingly Rodgers made no changes.
Meanwhile Beale has to assess his walking wounded and decide who will be the least risk to use on the plastic pitch at Kilmarnock on Saturday ahead of the Champions League qualifier against Servette four days later.